thoughtful decision Quotes

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

Everything I do is premeditated.

Debates measure abilities you don't need to govern, like glibness. To govern you should be thoughtful, not glib. A debater has a sense of humor, but what's it got to do with governing? The ability to think on your feet. You make a budget sitting on your tush.

Choosing what we think rather than reaction to our emotions.

I've never acted fully impulsively. I think with my mind and my heart.

Now from a distance, I look back on what the Corps taught me: to think like men of action, and to act like men of thought!

I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments and see what makes sense.

You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more. And if you can’t write an intelligent answer to those questions, don’t do it.

I think an important lesson from the game is that once you have made a move, you cannot take it back. You really have to measure your decisions. You think a lot. You evaluate your choices very carefully. There's never any guarantee about what's going to follow once you have made a decision.

When something is so hot, I don't want to just jump on it right away. I want to take it home and make sure I give it my best shot.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling.

I try to make good decisions as decisions come up.

I've been very strategic in how I've approached the jobs I want to do.

But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind .... This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, … taking the necessary time.

I think it is important to time yourself to make the right choices. It's not responsible to go ahead and say a 'yes' or 'no' on a whim.

Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.

One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.

When you need to make a decision, don't let your emotions vote.

I've never been reckless - it's always calculated. I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated.

I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.

Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to have children - who are deliberate and thoughtful about the choice to bring another person into the world - would be seen as less selfish than those who unthinkingly have children. Yet the stigma remains.

I think it is terribly important to have opinions, and to think. We live in a world of action without thought.